LETTER : Royal Family fails nation in its grief
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The most useful legacy of Diana Windsor would be the establishment in this country of a republic. An open and creative project for that purpose, which embraced all the people, might provide a paradoxically appropriate memorial to the life-work of a "people's princess".
SPENCER HAGARD
Cambridge
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